El Ten Eleven – It’s Still Like a Secret (2010) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Electronica, Experimental, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1. Ya No
2. The Sycophants Are Coming!
3. Indian Winter
4. Falling
5. Triangle Face
6. Ian Mackaye Was Right
7. Marriage is the New Going Steady
8. Cease and Persist
9. Anxiety is Cheap
10. Settling with Power
11. 83
12. Tomorrow is an Excuse for Today

“Kraftwerk in the Sky.” The Onion

"El Ten Eleven's dense, textured instrumentals recall post-rock standard-bearers like Tortoise or the Mercury Program, except theirs are created by only two musicians — and a whole lot of effects pedals." LA Times

“Constructed extraordinary tunnels of sound using various effects pedals and sampled loops that they create on the fly. Just think Explosions in the Sky – but with a pulse.” Seattle Times

El Ten Eleven - Every Direction Is North (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Experimental, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1. 3 Plus 4
2. Every Direction Is North
3. Hot Cakes
4. Estrel
5. Music for Staring at Ceilings
6. Keep
7. Dax Pierson
8. Living on Credit Blues
9. The 49th Day
10. Bye Annie, Bye Joe, Bye Michael, Bye Jake

Also.. their debut album :



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Tracklist :

1. My Only Swerving
2. Sorry About Your Irony
3. Lorge
4. 1969
5. Central Nervous Piston
6. Thinking Loudly
7. Fanshawe
8. Connie
9. Bye Mom

El Ten Eleven is a two-man post-rock band known for combining guitar/bass doubleneck, with heavy effects pedaling, over acoustic or electric drumming. Stylistically, they have been described as atmospheric, putting a much more ethereal spin on the southwestern post-rock/Americana movement than bands like Calexico or The Court & Spark, though less electronic and more organic-sounding than Tortoise or most shoegazer bands.

"A sort of Silverlake-style Sigur Ros, the L.A. duo makes instrumental music that's both highly skilled and deeply felt... the duo's compositions take on an incredible musical and emotional complexity." - Spin

El Ten Eleven - These Promises Are Being Videotaped (2008)

Genre : Electronic,Experimental, Post-rock
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Tracklist :

1. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine
2. I Like Van Halen Because My Sister Says They Are Cool
3. Fat Gym Riot
4. Adam and Nathan Totally Kick Ass
5. K10
6. Paranoid Android
7. Chino
8. Numb Tooth

With their first album, they were very post rock. Then there was a bit of a switch to "Every Direction is North." That particular album was a lot more upbeat. Less about atmospheres and more about dancing. And now, they've refined that sound. It's being called "Kraftwerk In The Sky" due to the jump from post rock to more danceable stuff, but of course, they still having one man playing all the riffs on the fly. And the Paranoid Androids cover, well that just Awesome!!!

Press

"Kraftwerk in the Sky." The Onion

"Justice Meets Tortoise." Some kid in Portland

"It might sound delusional to say the dude in El Ten Eleven is playing bass in a way that's never been done before, but if you've seen these guys live, you know it's not out of the question." Arizona Daily Star

"Imagine the music Michel Gondry may conjure to score a short film documenting an intense round of Chutes & Ladders, or putting earbuds on heart ventricles during a sunny-day jog. Something like that, I promise." Independent Weekly

"El Ten Eleven plays instrumental postrock so startlingly alive with dewdrop sparkle and melodic elan that the urge to sing along with lyrics that aren't there is unshakable." Baltimore City Paper